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From:
Valerie Sutton Date: Thu Jul 6, 2000 2:52 am Subject: Re: Lucky | |
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SignWriting List July 5, 2000 Thank you Charles, for this moving tribute - I do appreciate it! And thank you for defending SignWriting all these years - I know it hasn't been easy for you either - The title of this thread is "lucky" - well I feel "lucky" tonight thanks to you ;-) I hope others will write the dictionaries you mention.... And thanks also for the written literature, Charles - I will announce the posting when it is completed - Val ;-) ----------------------------------------- At 6:24 PM -0400 7/2/00, Charles Butler wrote: >To Bill and all else on the list, > >I would strongly suggest if we REALLY want to see an all-inclusive sign >dictionary in signwriting that would allow us not only to obtain a command >of that language but also the understanding and study of it, the same way >spoken language >dictionaries do it now.... > >.... then we better start looking at fundraising and publicity to make it >happen. Valerie Sutton will not be the only person creating such a >dictionary. She has too much on her plate already. > >To create the Webster's Dictionary, for example, takes hundreds of people >thousands of cataloguing hours going through already published works to get >usages and variants. To do the same for ASL (only one of hundreds of sign >languages) will be an equivalent TALL order. > >Are we willing to be a part of the creation of that process, becoming a Sign >Language researcher and transcriber, and putting down what you see so that >it can be in that "all inclusive dictionary"? > >Are we willing to devote thousands of hours on computer and one-on-one with >native Deaf signers? > >Are we willing to get through the barage of mistrust over the use of signed >languages AS language by Hearies? > >Are we willing to record variants and regionalisms linguistically in context >for the very project you desire? > >Are we willing to do all of this for free or next to nothing funds? > >If not, are we willing to devote time to write for grants in aid, service >projects, fundraisers and the like? > >Are we willing to be frustrated by fourteen people questioning which >direction the rotation arrow should go? > >Are we willing to see the same sign discussed fifteen ways from >Sunday..."but I DON'T DO IT THAT WAY?" endlessly? > >If each of us can do all of this, then our names must be collectively >Valerie Sutton, as she's been doing it for 25 years. > >If we can do any part of this, she will be eternally grateful for our >efforts. > > > >Charles Butler |
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